Zach Weston
Areas of Expertise
- Kinesiology, Sports Science and Biomechanics
Biography
Zach Weston is a clinician, educator and health system administrator. As an entrepreneur, he has founded and operated several health science companies leveraging MedTech in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Toronto communities.
Since 2003, he has taught courses in entrepreneurship and kinesiology/exercise physiology within the Faculty of Science, as well as entrepreneurial methods/business model development within the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics.
Currently, he also holds the role of Executive Director of the Fitness Industry Council of Canada and Executive Director of Fitness for Mental Health, in addition to being a part time faculty member at Laurier.
Formerly, Zach was the CEO of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology and formerly the Manager of Health System Performance and Clinical Innovation at the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) where he managed a portfolio including the regional programs of cardiology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, surgery, critical care, rehabilitation, chronic disease prevention and management.
He earned a BSc in Kinesiology and MSc in Exercise Physiology from the University of Waterloo and an MBA at Laurier. He is a registered clinical exercise physiologist with the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.